Sonja Norwood, San Francisco Member Since August 2010 Artist Statement I was born in Munich but when you spend your childhood in New Mexico it imprints on your soul. It is not just the rich ancient history and endless sky -- but the light. My father taught me to take and develop photos with a Brownie Hawk-eye and the darkroom equipment at the high school where he taught math and at times photography. Through college and my early adult years I used a Pentax K1000 to feed my compulsion to take more pictures and with apologies to Ansel - simultaneously fell in love with color and lost the control of the darkroom. I worked in wood carving block prints, painted a little and studied Chinese brush painting.